Chapter 23. Introduction to custom development

Exploring custom development

Understanding client-side APIs and web services

Determining build vs. buy

App model development

SharePoint Server API solution features

Customizing workflow

Summary

HAVE you reached the limits of what you can do with Microsoft SharePoint? Using custom code, you can extend SharePoint in many areas. You’ve seen examples of custom development in the chapters of this book on form development, web content management, and workflow. When you add custom development, solutions in all three of those areas of SharePoint can be improved in one way or another. But those are not the only areas of SharePoint that benefit.

Custom development is taking advantage of the application programming ...

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